Ithaca Climate Summary for May 1995

Temperature

• The average temperature for May was 54.1 degrees. This was 0.9 degrees cooler than normal, but 2.1 degrees warmer than May 1994.
• The warmest temperature of the month was 80 degrees on the month's final day.
• The temperature fell into the 20's on two occasions. The colder of these occurred on the 8th, when the temperature fell to 26 degrees.
  
  

Precipitation

• The May precipitation total was 2.64 inches, which is 80% of normal.
• This was the fourth month in a row with below normal precipitation, yielding a four-month deficit of 2.74 inches
• With just 5.92 inches of precipitation, this was the 9th driest Spring season (March-May) in the last 117 years, and the driest since 1981.
• The ten driest springs ever in Ithaca are as follows:

          Year	Precipitation
          1915	3.31 inches
          1885	4.73 inches
          1965	5.36 inches
          1981	5.36 inches
          1926	5.49 inches
          1962	5.55 inches
          1923	5.58 inches
          1978	5.64 inches
          1995	5.92 inches
          1903	5.96 inches

Freezing Temperatures

• Barring any June freezes, the date of the last spring freeze was May 9th. This was 8 days before the normal of May 17th and also earlier than each of the last 3 years.